Rem: Wow. I feel proud. This is our very first fanfiction ever! Hopefully you'll give us some good reviews, no? This first chapterwas originally not gonna be a prologue, but... it's really short so I made it a prologue. Because I can xDAnyway. If you've looked at my profile, you'll see we also have another story coming soon. Suzie and I actually started that before this one, but we really have been neglecting it quite a bit. Hopefully, we'll be posting it up soon, though. Um, that's all for now. Read the story!

Suzie: Our story sucks but whatever. As long as you readand review, I guess.No flames, please... be nice! Soo... The other story we're writing needs more beef to it so we will wait or maybe we won't post it at all if nobody wants us to. So... give us your opinions? Well, that's all I guess. Continue on with the chapter! Toodles

Disclamer: We don't own CCS... unfortunately...


--PROLOGUE --
Found

Nadeshiko Amamiya, a 26 year-old woman with wavy hair and warm brown eyes, heard a knock at her door in the middle of the night. She groggily got up from her bed and crossed her one room hut. WhenNadeshiko opened the door, however,there was no one there.Nadeshiko was about to close the door when she heard a cry near her feet. She looked down to see a basket covered in a pink cloth. When Nadeshiko picked up the basket, she heard another cry penetrate the night. Peeking into the basket, Nadshiko gasped. It was a small, infant girl.

A worried frown appeared on Nadeshiko's face as she rushed to her next door neighbor and best friend, Sonomi Daidouji, who was 30 with chin-length brown hair and misty blue eyes. Nadeshiko started franticly knocking on Sonomi's door while trying to calm the baby down. Sonomi opened the door blinking the sleep out of her eyes.

"What is it?" she asked yawning.

"Nomi-chan, someone left this baby on my doorstep! What should I do?" Nadeshiko asked, anxiously.

Sonomi was silent for a moment, processing Nadeshiko's words in her head. They finally sunk in.

"WHAT?" Sonomi shouted and then quickly shut her mouth after being shushed by Nadeshiko. "Oh my gosh, Nade-chan. Hurry up, come on in." Sonomi whispered quickly.

Nadeshiko stepped into the small house and set the basket carefully on top of a table. She breathed in the scents of dried herbs that were hanging on the while carefully handing the baby to Sonomi, blanket and all.

"Nade-chan, look at this." Sonomi murmured. Onto the pink blanket in the top right hand corner was embroidered the name, "SAKURA".

"I think that's a good name for her." Sonomi said. "What do you think, Nadeshiko?"

"Yes, I think it's a lovely name. Cherry blossom." Nadeshiko answered as she went back to the basket. She peered inside to see a note. "Nomi-chan! Come here look at what this note says."

In flowing elegant script, read the words:

'Please take care of our precious cherry blossom for us.'

"There's no signature on it…" Sonomi said softly, flipping the paper over. She then shifted the baby a bit in her arms, allowing the blanket to fall off of Sakura's shoulders. Nadeshiko gasped in shock.

"What is it?" Sonomi inquired.

Nadeshiko pointed at Sakura's back with a trembling hand and said, "She has the birthmark of a butterfly on her back!"

Sonomi turned Sakura around and gaped at her back.

"But…only fairies have butterfly birth marks." Sonomi said.

Nadeshiko gazed at Sakura. "Now I think I understand. Her parents must have been on the run from-"

"Fairy Hunters." Sonomi finished, bitterness in her voice.

Nadeshiko turned to Sonomi. "Do you know much about them, Nomi-chan?"

Sonomi shook her head. "Only that they seek to wipe the fairy population off the face of the world, and that they have the birthmark of a hawk on their backs." Sonomi set Sakura down into the basket and turned to face her large bookshelf.

"I think I have a book about fairies somewhere here…" Sonomi muttered running her finger over several books she had, looking for the right one. "Ah, here it is." She exclaimed, smiling triumphantly.

Sonomi held out a book with beautiful gold print on the cover that read, "Magical Creatures of Gambria". Sonomi then flipped the pages of the book until she found the page she was looking for. Nadeshiko looked over her friend's shoulder to read. The two scanned the pages quickly, absorbing all the information they could.

When they finished, Nadeshiko pointed out, "I think that we should read what information there is on Fairy Hunters... so we can be prepared if they ever discover Sakura."

"That's a good idea." Sonomi nodded as she sifted through the pages to find the section on Fairy Hunters. Sonomi and Nadeshiko started reading again.

When they finished, Nadeshiko has a sad look on her face. "How could he do such a terrible thing to her?"

"I know… it was horrible the way he betrayed her." Answered Sonomi. Then, the two looked out the window to see the sun just rising above the horizon.

"Oh my goodness!" Nadeshiko exclaimed. "It's dawn already and I left Touya in the hut alone. Here, I'll take Sakura for now until we can think of something to do. Ja ne!" Nadeshiko rushed out of the small hut and into her own, carrying Sakura in the basket with her.


Ack, sorry for the short chapter. I promise the next one will be better! Hopefully... For now, just review, please )

Cheers,
Rem & Suzie